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Coming up Wednesday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Pine Street Inn's Lyndia Downey
Naturalist Sy Montgomery
Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein
Boston Athletic Association's Scott Stover
Recent segments
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Shirley Leung On MIT Chairman Robert Millard: 'He Should Also Quit'
The Globe business columnist continued to press for accountability in the wake of the Jeffery Epstein donation scandal. -
Andrea Cabral Hopes Harvard Grads 'Rush Into The Breach' With Trump Judges
Cabral said she understands why Harvard Law grads might not be interested in serving Trump-appointed judges. -
Ask The Treasurer: January 16, 2020
On Thursday, state treasurer Deb Goldberg joined Boston Public Radio for the first edition of Ask the Treasurer -
Boston Public Schools Didn't Intend For Student Information To End Up With ICE, Says Paul Reville
Reville believes the Mayor and school district had no inclination to pass along student incident reports to -
Chris Burrell: Local Black And Minority Owned Businesses Are Getting Less Public Money
A new investigative report from WGBH has found that the share of public contracts going to minority and black owned businesses is shrinking. -
Kayyem: The Effect Of Climate Change On Sports
Playing sports is becoming more dangerous to the health of athletes in areas where climate change is hitting hardest.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 6/10: RFK Purges CDC Panel & Embrace Ideas Festival
Today:Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of the Boston Medical Center joins to discuss the latest medical headlines.And, ahead of this year’s Embrace Ideas Festival, we talk with Embrace Boston CEO Imari Paris Jeffries. Plus, joining Imari both at the festival – and today’s show – Giselle Byrd. She’s the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theatre company in the United States at Boston’s The Theater Offensive. -
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Best Of BPR 6/09: Trump's Law-And-Order Hypocrisy & The American Myth Of Meritocracy
Today:Trump deployed the national guard in California, without the consent of Governor Gavin Newsom. We talk through the existential questions of presidential authority with retired federal judge Nancy Gertner. Plus, her suspicions about the government's new charges of human trafficking against a man they wrongly deported, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.And, journalist Adam Chandler argues in his new book “99% Perspiration” that the American Dream equating hard work with success has turned out to be more of an American fantasy. -
BPR Full Show 6/6: The Trump & Musk Feud
WSJ Callum Borchers & GBH Adam Reilly for Press Play this week. They’ll discuss the latest efforts to defund PBS & NPR. The Light in the Piazza is the latest musical at the Huntington Theatre Company. We’ll hear performances from leads Sarah-Anne Martinez and Josh Grosso for this week’s edition of Live Music Friday.Dan Primack, business editor at Axios, joins to talk about steel tariffs, the latest re: the GOP megabill.Parke Wilde, Julia Hansen, and Peter Watson were arrested last year protesting the expansion of Hanscom airfield. Their cases are winding their way through court now, they join to talk about the case.